Rumblings xtra: Items that didn't make print edition

By: Bob Hunter

The Columbus Dispatch - May 09, 2014 11:07 AM

Gary Agnew, interim coach of the Blue Jackets for five games after Gerard Gallant
was fired in 2006 and a member of Ken Hitchcock’s staff in both Columbus and St. Louis, was let go
by the Blues along with goaltending coach Corey Hirsch.

Agnew, who has made his home in Dublin since he was on
the Jackets’ staff, isn’t likely to be without a job for long; he has a long track record of
success as a head coach from 1990 to 2006, and coached the Jackets’ Syracuse farm club for six
seasons until he joined Gallant’s staff.

Between his firing in Columbus (when Scott Arniel took
over the team) and his hiring by Hitchcock in St. Louis, he coached the Ontario Hockey League’s
Oshawa Generals, a team which included current Jackets’ player Boone Jenner.

His daughter, Lindsay, played soccer for Dublin Jerome
and is a member of the Ohio State women’s team.

In a roundtable with Barry Sanders, Harry Carson and host Larry King at the Pro
Football Hall of Fan Fest in Cleveland last weekend, former Browns great Jim Brown made sure
everyone knows how he feels about the NCAA.

In response to a question about why a player with a
career-ending injury in college could not receive compensation for lost future income, the
never-shy Brown let ‘er rip:

"The NCAA is probably the most reprehensible
organization God ever created," he said, as reported by ESPN.com. "Total exploitation. The kind of
money they make, the kind of life they live, it's embarrassing. I'm totally for change and total
change. And I think that body needs to be torn apart and put back together with everybody's best
interests in mind."

Penn State offensive line coach Herb Hand will be cooking on “Chopped,” a Food
Network show where chefs are asked to make dishes from a basket of unknown ingredients.

According to Mark Wogenrich of The Morning Call in
Allentown, Pa., Hand’s selection isn’t surprising. At Penn State's signing-day ceremony in
February, the line coach manned the omelet bar. And during a Reddit Q&A session, Hand described
a dinner he once made for a recruit: